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1511 H. Watson tr. St. Bernardino Chirche of Euyll Men & Women ii. sig. B.iij^v If it be so that we muste yelde account of the pronounced wordes, what shal it be of the lesynges, swerynges, blasphemynges, of mockynges detraccyons, and so forthe of the other.

1549 T. Hoby tr. M. Bucer Gratulation sig. Kv^v We sticke..vnto thos clere, and manifestlye pronunced oracles of God, which I have here to fore recited.

1577 Fruites Prayer H ij b He that by the vse of pronounced prayer is caried into the inward consolation of the minde.

a1684 R. Leighton Pract. Comm. (1693) ii. 443 Justice might indeed have siez'd on rebellious Man, and laid the pronounc'd punishment on him.

1752 C. Lennox Female Quixote II. viii. 215 He..ran eagerly to hear their Opinions of his beloved Cousin, which he soon discovered by their significant Gestures and half pronounced Words, to be very bad.

1767 Warning against Popish Doctr. 76 By these pronounced words, This is my body, the Romish priest saith, the bread, or wafer, becomes changed into the body of Jesus Christ.

1797 J. Warner Metronariston i. 27 Each final e forms a slightly or obscurely pronounced syllable in the following verse.

1871 E. A. Abbott & J. R. Seeley Eng. Lessons for Eng. People 152 We can never have three consecutive clearly pronounced syllables without a Metrical Accent.

1901 Westm. Gaz. 18 Sept. 2/1 Hymns..chaunted by the childish choir in ill-pronounced Latin.

1943 M. A. Pei Langs. for War & Peace vi. 187 French stresses all syllables of a word about equally; this..gives the impression that French stresses the last pronounced syllable in the word.

1990 Bellcore Ann. Rev. 4/2 Bellcore unveiled a highly sophisticated speech synthesizer that converts computerized text..into well-pronounced speech.

2004 Arkansas Democrat-Gaz. (Nexis) 25 Apr. [He] tried to talk to the men of Delta Company..using sign language and a handful of poorly pronounced English words.

1722 J. Richardson Acct. Statues Italy 72 That [sc. a drawing] of Annibale has the Spirit of a Great Master, and finely Drawn; the Features pronounced with great Assurance, but undoubtedly Rigorous enough.]

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Pronouncing Thus the Painters, in speaking of a Piece, say, these or these parts are well pronounc'd.

1748 D. De Coetlogon Diogenes at Court 42 Those Eyes have the same Vivacity they had one and twenty years ago: Those Features..are more pronounced; but retain still the same Beauty.

1781 J. Moore View Soc. Italy (1790) II. xlvi. 14 The contour of the body being as distinctly pronounced through it [sc. the light drapery] as if the figure were naked.

1816 Times 25 Sept. 2/4 The royalist majorities become daily more and more pronounced.

1818 H. T. Colebrooke On Import Colonial Corn 75 Emigration from Europe has not yet taken a pronounced direction towards Southern Africa.

1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. vii. 54 When regarded obliquely their colour is not so pronounced.

1879 T. P. O'Connor Ld. Beaconsfield 67 Mr. Disraeli sought election at Marylebone as a Radical of the most pronounced type.

1922 P. G. Wodehouse Clicking of Cuthbert ix. 209 A girl of such pronounced beauty that Ramsden Waters' heart looped the loop twice in rapid succession.

1948 ‘R. Crompton’ Family Roundabout iv. 36 Her features were all pronounced, but the most pronounced was her nose.

1988 Boxing Nov. 14/1 His superiority over other British featherweights was so pronounced that his entry in a tournament caused others to drop out.

2005 Wine Internat. Jan. 18/2 This [wine] is still very much a youngster with a pronounced appley influence.